There are 4 billion internet users.
22,000 YouTube channels out there having over 1 million subscribers.
If a small internet community has 10k members max – 100 will be regulars.
A cursory look at most commonly used software will show that the most popular categories of software fall into
- Education
- Games
- Professional Software
- Utilities
- Health and fitness
- Productivity
- AI as service
In some ways internet supports unskilled work like data entry, skilled work like programming / design and goes all the way to fund, run and sell stuff on markets.
Internet only sites / apps
- Messaging
- Internet Publishing – Forums, Wikis, Blogs, Social Networks
- Gambling
- Shopping
- Internet Markets
- Media
Value add of sites
- DNS
- Hosting
- CRUD
- Login
- No Install
- Search
- Single Click
- Selection Instead of Typing
In the enterprise level, software is heavily used in
- Banking
- HR / Payroll
- Inventory Management
- Support
- Analytics / Big Data
- Sales Management
Infrastructure software
- Operating systems
- Developer tools
- Cloud management
- Media Distribution
- Hardware
I have donated to open source, attended conferences, bought books, courses and bought software for music stuff. Some ways of getting money via software,
- Shareware / Freemium / Crippleware / Trialware
- Donationware / Nagware / Paywhatyouwant /
- Preorders
- Adware
- Crowdfunding
- Freeware
- Forumware
- Supportware
- Charge for downloads
- Add-on market
- SaaS
- Sell Apps on Markets
- Teaching
- Newsletter
- Bounty Hunting
- YouTube Advertisements
- Freelancing
- Books
- Open Source / Consulting
- Productised Services
- White label
https://www.quora.com/How-many-online-forums-are-in-existence
https://techjury.net/blog/how-many-websites-are-there/
https://tommcfarlin.com/monetizing-open-source/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-has-a-problem-with-monetization-not-aws/
https://dataconomy.com/2015/01/open-source-software-altruism-or-monetization-model/
http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/license_free.html
https://dzone.com/articles/open-source-software-is-eating-developers-the-compBooksBranding
https://prosperitylicense.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software
https://www.nothingventured.com/the-rise-of-the-one-person-unicorn/